The Science and Spirit of Music

Today's video blog was inspired by a project called "The Music Instinct - Science and Song." While there, I found some of the most fascinating scientific evidence concerning the effect of music on the human body. Here's a quote from the article, "How Music Can Reach The Silenced Brain" by Concetta Tomaino;

Music predates recorded history, but its roots may lie in early human communication and rituals for healing. In traditional African cultures and rain forest cultures in other parts of the world, for example, music is connected with many of life’s vital patterns and occasions. In Western culture, however, as music became increasingly accepted as an art form, its therapeutic properties were mostly forgotten—rediscovered only when music therapy became an organized field in the early 1950s.

Since then, a torrent of peer-reviewed clinical and scientific studies have focused on music’s therapeutic value in areas from reducing pain, to improving memory and cognition, to helping motor function. But even though we know how effective music therapy can be, the investigation of its effects on recovery of function in people with neurologic impairment is new and exceedingly challenging.
Source: "How Music Can Reach The Silenced Brain" by Concetta Tomaino 

What's even greater is that I was able to make connections between the scientific research and a case study from The Bible. Check out the video to see for yourself.